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Topic: Fuzeon and Bacterial Pneumonia?? (Read 1251 times)

I have now been on Fuzeon for the last 14 months and besides the usual ISR's and some possible insomnia, I have not had problems with it. However, in December I developed a cough accompanied by a mild fever (99-101 degrees) which concerned my doctor enough to give me a ten day cycle of Avelox. (fluoroquinolone antibiotic)

Within the first 24 hours, my fever was gone and I finished the antibiotics on December 20th. Two weeks later, (five days ago), I woke chilled in the middle of the night again with a 100 degree fever. Even though I had a flu vaccine shot this year, it seemed at first more like the flu. I was coughing a lot less and really had more chills and muscle aches. After the first day of trying ibuprofen and tylenol to little avail for the fever, I switched to a 12 hour (NSAID) called Indocin SR.

The Indocin immediately gained control of the fever and long as I take one twice a day it stays fairly normal. (when it wears off my fever begins to slowly climb again) Other than a few chills, muscle aches, occasional cough, and general fatigue I feel OK. My appetite has remained strong and I am taking all my meds and continuing my fuzeon injections. My Dec labs were- CD4's - 455, VL <50.

Since I know that Fuzeon can increase the incident of Bacterial Pneumonia, I was wondering how many people have experienced it. I believe I remember Rab saying that he had it three times in one year? Do the above symptoms sound like what you remember?

I have a scheduled appointment with my doc in nine days. Even if I want to push up the appointment, I just got new labs done last week. It will take a couple more days for those results to come back.

It used to be a few years ago I never worried about all this. Now, I take everything a little more seriously. My last case of Bacterial Pneumonia was in 1999. I got pretty sick with a high fever accompanied by a lot of coughing. My immune system though is actually in better shape now on paper than back then. I just wonder if my body still has the ability to rid itself of this without more antibiotics. I just hate having to take more than are necessary.